Venue: Leisure Coast, Bonuan, Dagupan City, Pangasinan

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A Recent data from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) showed that out of the 4,239,392 domestic and international job vacancies offered in thousands of job fairs nationwide in the past two years, only 391,088 among 1,286,073 applicants were hired on the spot and a majority of these vacancies are from the IT-BPO industry. The PITCON 2017 project is a combined seminar and workshop that will cover some industry standard skills needed to prepare the students in entering the IT-BPO industry. To simply put, attending PITCON 2017 will help you develop skills needed to enter the IT-BPO industry. Learn the basics to intermediate skill requirements when applying for an IT-BPO related jobs.
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My ICT Roadmap! How to prepare myself to become a successful IT professional.

I.T. is a very broad set of expertise, skills, and knowledge. This is a seminar to establish the correct career path for the student depending on his/her interest and skill set!
Speaker: Mr. John RueroISSA PH President,
Former PSITE President, Present PSITE Board of Trustee
Information Systems Security Association is an organization worldwide that innovates and motivates students and IT practitioners to value the field of Cyber Security. ISSA-PH mission is to be the premier catalyst and information source in the Philippines for improving the practice of information security. With more than 10,000 members in over 70 countries and 140 chapters in 35 countries, ISSA is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill, and professional growth of its members. ISSA is a founding contributor and preferred organization of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC) 2, which offers the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. Its goals are to promote management practices in the Philippines that will ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information resources.

The Foundation of Cyber Security - Cyber Security 101

Security is a big industry in the IT-BPO sector of the country. One of thebasic requirements to enter is to have an understanding of how the security is implemented from the basic unit. Learn the basics of home and home office security in this course!
Speaker: Mr. Mars CacachoFounder & CEO, HackTheNorth.ph,
Former Virus Coordinator, Trend Micro Inc.
HackTheNorth.ph is a non-profit organization founded by IT Security Specialists and Software Engineers whose roots thrive from Northern Philippines. Founding members come from the Regions of Ilocos, Cordillera and Cagayan Valley. The main objective of forming the organization is to bring industry knowledge to the country’s northern rural areas thru carefully crafted IT Seminars, IT Roadshows, Tech Share Sessions, Tech Talks and Hackathons.
As a global leader in IT security, Trend Micro develops innovative security solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. With over 25 years of security expertise, Trend Micro is recognized as the market leader in server security, cloud security, and small business content security.
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Soft Skills Masterclass

A fundamental requirement in IT-BPO industry is soft skills. Since technology is a global industry, the ability to communicate through the English language is essential. In this course, you will be trained by a veteran contact center trainer on how to achieve effective delivery of thoughts through soft skills.
Speaker: Mr. Alexander NatividadSenior Associate Training Manager, Sutherland Global Services ,
Former Operations Team Manager, Arvato Bertelsmann
Established in 1986, Sutherland Global Services is a global provider of process transformation services. The company offers an integrated portfolio of analytics-driven IT services, back-office and customer facing solutions that support the entire customer lifecycle. Sutherland is one of the largest process transformation companies in the world serving global leaders in major industry verticals. Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Sutherland employs over 38,000 professionals and has locations across the United States, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, Estonia, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Philippines, Slovakia, Sweden, UAE, and United Kingdom.
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Learn from Basics to Intermediate Skills On One Of The Biggest
Job Pool Requirement in PHP Development

Course pre-requisites: Laptop computer (one for every three participants) with basic PHP and MySQL installed; Basic knowledge in PHP and MySQL knowledge; backup internet (pocket-wifi)
WordPress was used by more than 26.4% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2016. It is reportedly the easiest and most popular blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites. That makes it one of the fundamental requirements if you are applying for a PHP web developer job as well as one of the largest job pool in the web development industry. In this course, learn the basics to advanced skills in developing and customizing a WordPress website.
Speaker: Ms. Kathleen MadriagaSenior Web Developer, 1902 Software Developent Inc.
1902 Software Development Inc. is a Danish-Filipino Information Technology company in the Philippines, which was started in 1998 in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila. As a software outsourcing company, 1902 Software is a technology partner to hundreds of companies and design studios—from small firms to big corporations—for their IT needs: websites, complete web applications, webshops, graphic designs, and mobile apps. The company’s clients are mostly from Europe.
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Build Realtime Apps : FullStack Javascript to the Rescue!

Course pre-requisites: Laptop computer (one for every three participants); backup internet (pocket-wifi)
From nothing to a real-time App complete with signup, login, token based authentication, authorization, with a RESTful API and a working Web and Mobile Apps. 1. Building a Client Realtime App (Web and Mobile) 2. Services-Controller-View (Data Methods-Template) 3. Setting up Your Backend Environment 4. Scaffolding and
Services 5. User Management 6. Using Authentication and Manipulating Data Build incredible apps in record time. With Fullstack Javascript you can build prototypes in minutes and production ready real-time backends and REST APIs in days. Seriously.
Speakers: Mr. Trinmar Boado and Mr. Robert SorianoDevelopers, DOST MIRDC
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Why Attend the Event? (Why Is It Important?)

A. Connect: Participating in PITCON will help the advocate organizations enter and connect with the academe in Pangasinan since ITMG is affiliated with different organizations like HackTheNorth, PHP User’s Group, Wordpress User’s Group, and much more!
B. Cost and Advocacy: Masterclass or whole day I.T. workshops cost a lot of money - thousands of pesos. Aside from that, add the miscellaneous expenses like food, accommodation, and transportation since most of these events are always held in the Metro. With ITMG’s advocacy, PITCON’s ticket prices are minimized without sacrificing the fun and learning experience for each participant.
C. Community: It is proven that the areas with active I.T. community are also the same areas with better I.T. skills and performance. That is because of the initiatives like Code Camps, Hackathons, etc. that are very easy to reach. Supporting PITCON is the same as supporting ITMG to grow and provide more and better events for the benefit of not only the students but also to the local community as well.
D. Get the Skills: In-line to the core values of ITMG, PITCON is a series of topics that are very much timely to help the students enter the I.T. industry based on what is standard and needed. Effectivity is our goal that is why instead of the traditional conference setup, PITCON presents a whole day workshop with student output and interaction. That will ensure us that after each event day, students will have a basic knowledge on some of the skills needed to enter the I.T. industry.